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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9090 

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 

2006 to require recipients of Federal awards to collect and report data 

relating to subawards granted to entities outside of the United States, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 22, 2024 

Ms. STEFANIK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Oversight and Accountability 

A BILL 

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require recipients of Federal 

awards to collect and report data relating to subawards 

granted to entities outside of the United States, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tracking Receipts to 

5 Adversarial Countries for Knowledge of Spending Act’’ or 

6 the ‘‘TRACKS Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FOREIGN SUBAWARDS. 

2 Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

3 Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note; Public 

4 Law 109–282) is amended— 

5 (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 

6 following: 

7 ‘‘(9) SUBAWARD.—The term ‘subaward’— 

8 ‘‘(A) means an award provided by a pass9 through entity to a subrecipient for the sub10 recipient to carry out part of a Federal award 

11 received by the pass-through entity; 

12 ‘‘(B) includes an award described in sub13 paragraph (A) that is passed from a sub14 recipient to another subrecipient; and 

15 ‘‘(C) does not include payments to a bene16 ficiary of a Federal program.’’; and 

17 (2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 

18 following: 

19 ‘‘(3) REPORTING OF FOREIGN SUBAWARDS.— 

20 ‘‘(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 

21 ‘‘(i) COVERED SUBAWARD.—The term 

22 ‘covered subaward’— 

23 ‘‘(I) means a subaward awarded 

24 to an entity located in a foreign coun25 try of concern (as defined in section 

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1 berry National Defense Authorization 

2 Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 

3 4651)); and 

4 ‘‘(II) includes a subaward de5 scribed in subclause (I) of any 

6 amount. 

7 ‘‘(ii) PRIME AWARD RECIPIENT.—The 

8 term ‘prime award recipient’, with respect 

9 to a covered subaward, means the entity 

10 that directly receives the Federal award 

11 from which the covered subaward origi12 nates. 

13 ‘‘(B) REPORTING.—The recipient of a cov14 ered subaward shall disclose data with respect 

15 to the covered subaward in the same manner as 

16 subawards are disclosed in accordance with 

17 paragraph (2). 

18 ‘‘(C) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 90 days 

19 after the date of enactment of the Tracking Re20 ceipts to Adversarial Countries for Knowledge 

21 of Spending Act, the Director shall issue guid22 ance that establishes consistency for complying 

23 with this paragraph for agencies, prime award 

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1 cluding establishing standards for disclosed 

2 data.’’. 

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